with a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facility of Colonizing that part of Africa, with a View to Cultivation; and the introduction of letters and religion to its inhabitants: but more particularly as the means of gradually abolishing African Slavery relative to an attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1792
with a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c. and some observations on the facility of Colonizing that part of Africa, with a View to Cultivation; and the introduction of letters and religion to its inhabitants: but more particularly as the means of gradually abolishing African Slavery relative to an attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1792
44 African Memoranda. The officer, who had been sent to the Hankey, returned in June 6. the night, the fears of the Portuguese governor were dissipated, 7th and I was suffered to return to my ship early the next morning; I found that the Calypso had joined her consorts the preceding day, having experienced an event calamitous to the individuals immediately concerned, discouraging to their associates, and in jurious though not fatal to the welfare of the colony. At this time there were not any sick on board the Hankey.